Archive for the ‘Quick Tips’ Category

Web design is continually evolving and we as web designers are always playing catch up and accumulating new technique to stay ahead. We thought it would be nice to review a few favourite jQuery plugins that we use here at Morgan Creare.

We recently stumbled upon a new jQuery plugin which uses CSS3 to create unique transitional style to your slides. Sequence is a jQuery plugin that has been developed by Ian Dunn and gives you the power to customise the plugin to your taste as it has no in-built theme. The plugin can be downloaded from . No jQuery knowledge is needed to use this plugin and it gives a Parallax effect which is currently popular most web designers. We would highly recommend this plugin for the use of animating text and potentially using easing to give a flash like effect.

The next plugin which is currently popular with us is called which is by Pixdelic. This plugin is like the Wow slider but with this plugin you can have images, content and video slide from left to right and add cool transitional effects.

There are many more plugins available which do new and exciting things for websites. HTML5 and CSS3 are giving many websites new and exciting designs and effects. Both HTML5 and CSS3 is using animation of 2D elements to make the user experience of a typical website more interesting and most importantly compatible with mobile devices such as the Android and iPhone and iPad.

We are in the process of updating our web design portfolio and if you are from the Bristol, Cardiff, South West area or anywhere else in the UK please give us a call today and get a quote from us today.

With the new release of WordPress I thought it would be timely to show some examples of useful WordPress snippets to help you in your quest to build brilliant blogs/cms websites. Though these examples are relatively simple they’re all equally essential to help you in building a great site. Below are the examples which you can go and use immediately in your very own site. (more…)

As jQuery is an ever increasingly popular tool among many web designers, for the new starters it can be quite difficult to get your head around. Many designers first choice of jQuery implementation is the Slider effect, allowing smooth slide transitions horizontally or vertically between images of, for example portfolio work. (more…)

There are many ways to add twitter to your website to display your latest tweets, including twitters widgets. Unfortunately I haven’t come across to many that allow you to completely customize the display of your tweets on your page. (more…)

Choosing a domain name isn’t something that should be taken lightly. It is a very important aspect of your companies branding and can play a part in your websites SEO (search engine optimisation). (more…)

Ever heard of torrents or used Bit Torrent to download movies, music or shared files over the internet? Researchers have discovered that anyone who does use Bit Torrent to download files over the World Wide Web will most probably be monitored. Studies were carried out by Birmingham University and they have discovered that if someone [...]» more